"Not the way he probably meant," Annie corrected, shaking her head. "I mean you clearly like being around each other."

Even when they were bickering. Annie had never had siblings, of course, but watching the Hargreeves together was the first time she'd ever gotten a real sense of what she was missing by being an only child.

"But also that, yeah," she added, agreeing. "You are literally stronger together. Like -- did you know you could do that? With the bullets?"